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Support and Feedback / Re: Can you add an Editor icon to the toolbar?

« on: December 08, 2015, 16:05:04 »

Thanks for the swift response.   Just tried doing that, using exactly the same technique as before and - success! 


 I knew it should have been that easy but I have absolutely no idea why it would not work before, not once, not twice but three times and it failed every time. I suppose by now i should not be surprised that computers have a will of their own!   

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Support and Feedback / Re: Can you add an Editor icon to the toolbar?

« on: December 08, 2015, 08:07:45 »

What I want to do is to add another editot to the Quick Launch bar.  I tried to add the Notepad++ program by the method given in the online help but I could't make it happen.


Must have been doing somethingbwrong but I don't know what.

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Support and Feedback / Can you add an Editor icon to the toolbar?

« on: December 07, 2015, 16:22:13 »

I am (reasonably) happy with Notepad as the default editor but there are many occasions when I use either Notepad 2 or the excellent Notepad ++.


Is it possible to create an entry in the File Type Setup / Editors section to do that.


I have added Notepad ++ and set the relevant icon.  I have also configured it to deal with .htm .html .css .js files at present.

All of that seems to work; if I highlight a file and then click either F9 or use the Edit (F9) button in the button bar.

However, no icon seems to appear anywhere other than next to the specified file types in the pane.

Ideally, I would like to see the icon somewhere,, such as the Quick Launch bar, so that I could simply drag a file over to that if it was convenient.  The suggested method of dragging or dropping the program to insert the icon on the Quick Launch bar does not work - at least for me!


Incidentally, in trying various strategies I managed at one time to add a Notepad icon somewhere on one of the toolbars, (a the end of the Command line?) but that no longer appears. Resolved.  It seems the checkbox in core configuration has been cleared.


Sorry for asking what may be yet another trivial question but I am trying to come to grips with, and thoroughly explore, this excellent software package.

EDIT
Just checked on another computer and the icons for Notepad, Calc and Command Window do appear at the end of the Command bar.  How can they be reinstated?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quick Launch Bar icon

« on: December 06, 2015, 16:01:52 »

True. But if a Quick Launch bar is already enabled then it may be reasonable to expect the icon to appear.


As I wrote, it is not a real issue and I can, (and have), resolve it simply by pinning the shortcut to the Quick launch area.  The content is stored in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch

A number of icons are placed there by other programs, or in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar.

To be fair, it may be that some, but not all, of this functionality may be an artefact of the Win 7 installation prior to the Win 10 upgrade.

No a problem, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

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Support and Feedback / Quick Launch Bar icon

« on: December 06, 2015, 15:22:14 »

Just a small, almost trivial point.

When installing Multi Commander on a Win 10 box the MC icon does not appear on the Quick Launch Bar.

At installation all three options are checked; the Desktop icon and the Start Menu entry are fine.

Same issue occurred on two separate boxes.


All options worked fine on a Vista box.

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Support and Feedback / Re: No context menu - version 5.8.1

« on: December 05, 2015, 16:00:56 »

Ah!

Found the setting to clear the warning message 
Explorer Panel Settings / Folder and Folder state colors / Rule based coloring of files and folders.

Sorry not to have spotted that earlier.  I will need to spend some time to familiarise myself with the software.  I continue to be impressed with the range of configurations and so on!

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Support and Feedback / Re: No context menu - version 5.8.1

« on: December 05, 2015, 14:43:46 »

Update in the Context Menu issue.

This was actually a rather subtle problem to resolve!

My initial installation of Multi Commander was on a Windows Vista box, where, as reported, everything seemed fine except for the context menu issue.

Before trying to resolve any issue with extension incompatibilities I decided to install Multi Commander, (64 bit version), on one of my Win 10 boxes which carries very similar software content .

Result -  on that computer, the context menus worked every time.

With that confirmation that at least one version was working on my local network I then compared the content of the context menus on each box.  This was identical apart from one specific piece of software which exists only on the Vista box.

So, following you excellent advice, I installed and used ShellExView and disable that item.

Result.  Multi Commander still crashed.

It was then a matter of selectively disabling / enabling any relevant extension to try and remove the problem.  Nothing obvious worked until, almost as the last try before giving up I checked the AVG Shell Extension Class.

(I use AVG antivirus on all of my computers after many years of Norton and then a few years of unhappy experiences with McAfee).

This extension did not cause any problems on the Win 10 box and the context menu functions quite properly, containing the "Scan with AVG" and "Permanently shred with AVG" options.  Both of these originally appeared on the Vista box too but disabling the extension removed them of course.

Basically, with the AVG extension removed on the Vista box, the problem appears to have been resolved.



Update on the change Look'n'Feel issue.

This issue was much simpler to resolve.  Using the "Quick Look'n'Feel Setup" option the selection panel appears, of course, but there is no indication that once a change, say from Commander Style to Explorer style has been made it is necessary to close down and restart Multi Commander for the change to take effect.  If the information is somewhere I didn't see it, but I suppose the solution is obvious, in hindsight!




Update on the File Coloring Rules Editor issue.

No solution yet as to why the error message "Your color setting in Explorer Panel does not allow for Rules Based coloring.  To see this color rules in use you must enable that option."  appears. Even in the new installation on Win 10 the message appears even though no configuration changes have been attempted.

Just where is the option to allow for Rules Based coloring?  I have looked carefully and can't see that anywhere.



Thanks for your help; as I posted originally, I was, and am, impressed with the quality of this utility! 

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Support and Feedback / Re: No context menu - version 5.8.1

« on: December 04, 2015, 17:58:49 »

OK, thanks for the speedy reply.

However, if there is some sort of clash with an existing shell extension then I guess I'll forget about using Multi Commander.  I am loathe to change my existing set up and make any forced changes.

Pity because I thought I had found a first class piece of software.


Incidentally I  have also found some other issues.


It is not easy to change the look'n'feel styles despite following the instructions.  Nothing seems to change whichever option I select, so that I cannot even try the Commander style..

Changing color options, especially for active /inactive backgrounds appeared fine when I first installed the software but now, if I want to try a modify the various color defaults for files and folders I can't do anything because I get the message "Your color setting in Explorer Panel does not allow for Rules Based coloring.  To see this color rules in use you must enable that option."

There appears to be no such option available in that panel and, in any case I have changed nothing there with this latest install.

After failing to make that work I then tied to invoke different color backgrounds for active / inactive panels but couldn't do that despite being successful with the initial installation.

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Support and Feedback / No context menu - version 5.8.1

« on: December 04, 2015, 15:56:54 »

I have just installed the current version of this software, using the Windows Explorer look'n'feel.

Initially, I was impressed.  However, trying varying basic functions I find that I cannot display a context menu by a right-mouse click.

Every time I try MC hangs with a "Not responding" message in the title bar.  Tried changing the style to Commander look'n'feel which, it appears, could not be invoked.

Completely uninstalled and then tried a fresh install.


Still doesn't work.

Is there a simple, (perhaps obvious), solution to this fundamental problem?

Otherwise, it seems that I will have to uninstall and look for other file management alternatives.